Insert Body field in Insert Email Link Dialog in Sitecore Link field

Question

In the Sitecore link field, click on Insert email, a dialog box opens (attached in the below images). It has fields like

• Displayed Text
• Subject
• E-mail Address
• Style

In the above dialog box, I am trying to add one more field Body, but it is not appearing.

I tried to make changes in the file Website\sitecore\shell\Applications\Dialogs\MailLink\MailLink.xml and customized Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Dialogs.MailLink\MailLinkForm class. But nothing happened.

Can someone guide me that these are the right files I am making changes in or I need to do something else.

Answer 1

The dialog which is appearing is the one from the SPEAK UI. In order to add your new text field, you will need to add a textbox to the presentation details of the dialog.

Note that, it will need to use Sitecore Rocks to update the UI for SPEAK because you will need to have access to the renderings.

Navigate to the Core database and then to the path /sitecore/client/Applications/Dialogs/InsertEmailDialog.

Right click on the InsertEmailDialog > Tasks > Design Layout, you can add the rendering for the TextBox.

Once the textbox added, you can update the code.

The JS is found at /sitecore/shell/client/Applications/Dialogs/InsertEmailDialog.js and the backend code is at the namespace Sitecore.Speak.Applications.InsertEmail, Sitecore.Speak.Applications